I like the idea of opera, I just don't know anything about it, is an all-too-common refrain among postcollegiate, culturally literate and musically savvy-but perhaps a little intimidated -- twenty- and thirtysomethings all over the country. Now author Matt Dobkin gives us the first real guide to an often mystifying art form.A witty, irreverent tour through opera land Getting Opera includes synopses of fifty operas; how to score cheap tickets; where to find opera information on the Web; sidebars with surprising facts and figures such as which operas you might like depending on your astrological...
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Giacomo Puccini (20th Century Composers) by Wilson, Conrad published by Phaidon Press Paperback

By: N/A

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Phaidon Press: May 1997

Seller ID: 37838

ISBN: B008SURI9A

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

History of Opera (Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music)

By: N/A

Price: $6.50

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: February 1990

Seller ID: 259609

ISBN: 0393028100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Idomeneo (Libretto - The Metropolitan Opera)

By: Giambattista Varesco Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc: January 1988

Seller ID: 246880

ISBN: B001APYQKY

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

La Favorita: Libretto (Metropolitan Opera)

By: Gaetano Donizetti, Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaez

Price: $3.99

Publisher: G. Schirmer: January 1977

Seller ID: 162858

ISBN: B000EA3XO6

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

MARIA CALLAS: Sacred Monster

By: Stelios Galatopoulos

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: April 1999

Seller ID: 268713

ISBN: 0684859858

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Music scholar, opera critic and, toward the end of Callas's life, close friend and confidante, Galatopoulos has written both a careful assessment of her daring and tumultuous career -- recognizing her as defining vocal art for an age, admitting also her faults and premature decline, recounting her stormy lives in public and private.

Correcting the many misguided books which have appeared since her death in 1977, revealing Callas's thoughts about her family, her controlling husband, her feuds with rivals, conductors and directors, and her feelings for Aristotle Onassis, whose close friendship...
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Metropolitan Opera Lucia Di Lammermoor Libretto

By: Gaetano Donizetti

Price: $3.99

Publisher: G. Schirmer: January 1951

Seller ID: 162861

ISBN: B005D22CYW

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Opera

By: Herbert Kupferberg

Price: $3.49

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: June 1975

Seller ID: 175397

ISBN: 0882251171

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss

By: Paul A. Robinson

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Harpercollins: June 1985

Seller ID: 128288

ISBN: 0060154500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Operetta: A Theatrical History (Oxford Paperbacks)

By: Richard Traubner

Price: $8.48

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May 1989

Seller ID: 230961

ISBN: 0195207785

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This entertaining and thorough examination of operetta remains the only complete, richly-illustrated history available of a delightful form of musical theater which has enraptured audiences around the world for over a century. Coming at a time of renewed enthusiasm for operetta, Richard Traubner's timely volume shakes the dust off many exciting pieces, while documenting the creation of the masterworks of the form, including Orphee aux Enfers, Die Fledermaus, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Merry Widow, The Desert Song, and White Horse Inn. It covers the careers of the major operetta composers and librett...
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The Complete Operas Of Puccini (A Da Capo paperback)

By: Charles Osborne

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Da Capo Press: August 1983

Seller ID: 224629

ISBN: 0306802007

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La Boh me and Tosca are more frequently performed in the major opera houses than works by other composers, and Madame Butterfly and Manon Lescaut rank not far behind. What is the explanation for Puccini's enormous success? How do his operas work as music and drama? What was he like to contemporaries such as Verdi, Toscanini, and Caruso? Charles Osborne, author of highly suc...
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The Dictionary of the Opera

By: Charles Osborne

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: October 1986

Seller ID: 265866

ISBN: 0671628011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The glory of opera

By: Alan Jefferson

Price: $12.95

Publisher: David & Charles: January 1976

Seller ID: 246765

ISBN: 0399117717

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Pages unmarked, DJ intact - wear to edges.
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The great singers;: From the dawn of opera to our own time

By: Henry Pleasants

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Simon and Schuster: January 1966

Seller ID: 265905

ISBN: B0006BO8CY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Knowledge: Opera

By: Dennis Marks

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd: September 2015

Seller ID: 127591

ISBN: 1849496226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera

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Price: $24.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: October 1993

Seller ID: 202218

ISBN: 0393034445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New - New

Whether it is used for recommendations on which recording to buy, or for a bird's-eye view of the recording history of a specific opera, the Guide to Recorded Opera will prove an indispensable addition to the opera lover's library.

Casts, dates, and compact disc availability for all the complete recordings of 150 different operas.

Critical evaluation by an outstanding authority of each complete recording of each opera.

Recommendations for the best recordings of every work.

Access to the reviews facilitated by two tables of contents: one organized alphabetically by co...
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